So the Anniversary was supposed to be a celebration? Or with English being my second language I missed some subtlety?
I just can’t help being sarcastic.
I’m a big critic of D3 but I don’t regret my $50 purchase of HP. However, I might start to if they don’t remedy the situation in one way or another. I’m sure they are working on a solution and a plan of action to go forward with so I’m going to hold off on regret at least until tomorrow.
I was nourishing the idea of spending HP for the first time on a cover thinking 5th Steve’s red cover might help me vs Galactus. Now it looks that wouldn’t make a difference so I’m glad I didn’t rush that desicion.
Eh, I don’t feel I’ve wasted money on this bonus
I see it as investing on something I potentially need to spend it on in the near future (i.e. roster slots) even if the current token pack deals (draw rates) are pretty disapponting.
I know it’s early in the anniversary events but so far there is a very contrasting feeling between this one and the year 1 events The first Anniversary event felt like a "Thank You” with lots of cool rewards like Devil Dino and fun new events. So far this feels more like an “F-you, we want to sell HP” event as by level 4 Galactus wipes your entire team in 4-6 turns. The rewards are lazy as they are just rehashed from last year’s Anniversary. 1 year ago Devil Dino was part of the new meta in the game as 4 stars were just becoming the gold standard. It was a cool reward that felt like a thank you. 1 year later we have entered the 5 star age and the rewards are still for Devil Dino, who BTW is absolutely useless at this time as he is a weaker 4 star that is never boosted and never feature in anything. Where are the Legendary Tokens? Where are the increased chances to get 5 starts that make this feel like a “Thank You” event? This is supposed to be a celebration of the game and yet you are offering us almost nothing to play for. Based on the difficultly level of Galactus so far, it’s looking like only those of us in alliances with veteran players will really have a shot of getting Classic Cyclops covers. Those with weaker rosters are going to have to burn a ton of Health Packs restoring their entire team as they get destroyed in a few short turns. So us veterans have little to play for with these rewards and the new players will likely have to burn some serious HP to get to the rewards that they want. That’s going to leave a lot of people pissed off and feeling like D3 doesn’t really give a damn about their player base.
Come on D3, you can do better than this. I really hope you have a cool surprise or two that hasn’t been revealed yet.
Weren’t we all supposed to receive a special token today according to those news articles? I am guessing that special token was really the 1 Taco for Taco Day.
Sure that’s what I always thought. I just thought this time I could make exception if it would help me control those pesky CDs. But from what I hear now people experience in Round 3 you get killed before you can start any ‘controlling’.
The T150 rewards in the Devil Dino PVP will be Legendary tokens.
Btw, you completely forgot the awesome 20 player Lightning Rounds! I am so pissed they removed those, they could have at least had 100 player Lightning Rounds or something.
Last year’s anniversary had Venom: Heroic as the PVE and the Versus season was Balance of Power and Combined Arms, not very popular due to all the Health Packs they eat up, then Weapon Tex-Mex which is Deadpool I guess.
There were some cool lightning rounds too at least, but Galactus is WAY more then anything interesting they offered last year in terms of events.
Last year, they did NOTHING. Seriously absolutely nothing - and so the forums lit themselves on fire. It was a major brew-ha. Kinda crazy.
So then suddenly - oh wait, right, we were GOING to do something - uh, here it is! And all it was was just a few events with “anniversary” themed stuff (like the upcoming PvP is). The major thing everyone remembers is the 50 HP, 1/day anniversary token you could buy that actually had a ~40% chance of a non-2* prize: EASILY the BEST reward they’ve ever given (apparently this year they lowered the chance).
No other really big stuff, though.
Honestly, this year I am loving the new alliance event. I mean, sure it will suck - from what I can tell you’ll be lucky to make it to round 6, much less pass it - but at least they’re doing something new and interesting. Kudos to them!
How is the Galactus event “new and interesting?” It’s a straight copy of the Ultron event only with crazy ramped-up difficulty and nodes that don’t reset after you finish a round.
